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(just after Liverpool scored)

Me: Woo!!
Her: What happened?
Me: My team just scored!
Her: Then why do they have to hold each other’s heads?
Me: Cos they’re celebrating!
Her: They should just kick each other.

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(while playing Pictionary)

Me: What are you drawing?
Her: Do you give up?
Me: No!
Her: Okay, I’ll draw it easier for you. If you still can’t guess, I’ll press the give up button for you.

(There was no “Give Up” button. She just drew it.)

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Her: I like your floor.
Me: Why?
Her: The floor is like Ikea!

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Kids really do say the cutest things, don’t they? :p

. . . . .

Song of the Day

The Dope (Wonderful You), by The Dandy Warhols

Visionary. Innovator. Inspiration.

1955 – 2011

. . . . .

I may have only been a Mac user for 5 years, but I recognise that Steve Jobs has played a very integral role in transforming technology to become what it is today: accessible, sleek, geeky-cool.

Thank you, Mr Jobs.

Cozy… not oversized – a hand crafted gem. City living with all it’s artisans provide the ingredients for lofty food ambitions. Resort, retreat, getaway – all inside your bedroom. Music provides the backbeat to everything you do. Enjoying elegant outdoor fare. Watch the grass grow in the hot summer sun. Stopping at nothing, reclaimed flooring from a 17th century French Chateau. Always intriguing, never clumsy.

Suspected “Antiquated Espresso”
- Tom Waits
- Humphrey Bogart
- Katharine Hepburn

What’s your visual style?

. . . . .

I love doing silly quizzes like this. :p

Song of the Day will soothe your weary soul:

Let It Be Me, by Ray LaMontagne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUec4MMQflE

I’m heading off to church now for Watchnight Service. I’ll see you guys next year. ;)

This is such a brilliant idea.

Like, seriously brilliant.

Now, can someone please give me a cookie, or something?

Anyway, here’s what I drew. Can you guess what these are?

I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2010 has in store for me. Happy New Year, everyone!

So in case anyone was keeping count, I’ve got this blog, Twitter and a Tumblr. How in the world do I keep up with all of them?

Well, I don’t.

But I must admit, it was getting tiring having to be uber careful with whatever I was blogging about cos it was on such public domain. While this isn’t exactly top secret either, at least it’s less publicised, and I can lock entries (I think). Sure beats having to think twice before hitting that ‘publish’ button.

Now that I’m back with a more “personal” blog, one would think that I’d be more willing to blog about my real gripes with work. Haha, nice try. Being a civil servant, I know there are watchdogs everywhere so I’ll just stick to my personal life, thankyouverymuch. Then again, what personal life? I come home dog-tired everyday (and usually after 6pm) that I’ll just end up giving in to the urge of crawling into bed and watching crap loads of TV – which until today is still being targeted as being bad for one’s development. Ladies and gentlemen? I grew up watching an unhealthy amount of television and guess what? I’m still no mass murderer, nor am I delusional, or insanely shallow. So perhaps it’s not as bad as you guys make it out to be? Oh wait, those examples were pegged as the effects of the Internet, wasn’t it? Didn’t people say that about TV back then? See where I’m going with this?

Aside: It sure is nice to ramble. I love you, rambling self! *hugs*

Hmm… no one ever said anything about TV making you narcissistic, right?

Anyhow. The other reason why I’m actually able to re-boot this blog is because I’m on a two-day medical leave. Yay to throat inflammations! And believe it or not, I’m actually home with nothing to do. Yes, that’s right. NOTHING! I’ve conveniently left everything at work, and because I’m not married to my job, I’ve successfully fought the (microscopic) urge to go down to bring work back. So thanks to all the shouting that I’ve done, this wee lass is able to sit down in front of her trusty computer and set things back into motion. Can I get a ‘woohoo’?

However, because I’ve been so faithful to Greymatter all these years, it was a total pain in the ass trying to figure out WordPress. It’s heaps better, for sure, but now there’s all these CSS & PHP scripts that I’ve blatantly avoided for the past few years haunting me, so until I find more time to work at customising my own theme, this simple off-the-rack one will have to do.

Besides, it’s rather nice and simple, don’t you think?

Finally, on to the new title, which I’m sure you’ve been racking your brains to figure out. (No? Oh well.) Yes, it’s from that rather-dull-but-gorgeous Blur song, which I felt was quite representative of this art of blogging. Did I really just say that? The art of blogging? You have to admit that blogging can be rather cathartic yet it sort of leaves you vulnerable as random eyes peer through these lines of text. Yet, many do it, all because we want to continue capturing the more meaningful moments in our lives. And since this is a completely new platform, and not even an improved version of my old blog, I figured a change of name was in order.

Wow, I sure missed writing.

(Older posts can still be found here.)